Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-29
THE FRENCH SEE-SAW.
The War Party Now Up In the Air anC
Rouviar nnxun

Aho "H Earty NOW Up In the Air ana
;%r Rouvier Down.
LONDON, June 2s.-Few persons, even
among those who throng the boulevards of
Paris daily, are aware OF the strength of
the war feeling which prevails in France,
and especially in Paris, or have any kpowl-
edge Of the extent to which the belief has
gone abroad that General Boulanger will
ultimately prove to be the savior of the
country.
Previous to General Boulanger's retire
ment from the War Office, the all-pervad-
ing supposition was that his popularity
was confined to the lower classes, the re-
rancho party, and the Irreconcilables, who
would drop him as quickly as they had
taken him up when a new idea should ap-
pesr, or in pursuance of their usual course
Of dissatisfaction with everything and
everybody after short period of advocacy
and support. The exceptionally consider
ate and discreet conduct of the ex-War
Minister since he went Out-of Office, how
ever, and his refusing of the popular clam
or for his appearance at the head of DEM
onstration to assert his claims as the lead
er Of powerful faction if not great party,
have told wonderfully in his favor, and
little short of forced upon thousands of
thinking men that he is
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for him, and these men are too convinced
that in some way Boulanger will be promi-
nent as a rescuer of France from the van
dial hand of Germany. Hundreds of small
meetings are held every week Ut. which his
name is cheered aud every eifortSof the
gOvernment-and such efforts are made
more frequent than is generally known
to suppress such manifestations only serves
to strengthen his hold upon those who
have come to regard Boulanger as an object
of persecution at the hand of the friends
Of Germany and the luke warm patriots of
France
Very quietly but no less certainly is the
Generals hold upon the hearts of the peo-
pie OF France taking a firmer grasp, and
quietly but surely are his influential
friends in and out ofthe Chamber of Dep
uties getting ready for the time when a
blow struck in his behalf will have the eff
feet they desire. The Government will
not be hampered by Boulanger's partisans
in small matters, hut when the measure is
presented that upon its own merits, aside
from partisan feeling, shall divide the
Chamber pretty closely the Rouvier Min
istry will find itself
\ HELPLESS MINORITY AND ROUTED
beyond the limits of reorganization. Al
ready the Government has discovered its
mistake in ignoring the Right in the de-
bate and subsequent division on the eccle-
siastical students amendment to the Army
bill, proceeding which, although it was
under the circumstances perfectly safe to
indulge in for the time being the Ministry
have had time to consider the ultimate ef-
feet OF, and to which they had shown a
less independent spirit.
NJ. Olemenceau and his Radical follow
ers, while making no noisy demonstration,
are Steadfast in their determination TO
slaughter the Government at the first op-
portunity, and there is nothing more GER
tain than that they will succeed in accom-
plishing their purpose The downfall Of
the Rouvier ministry, whose death knell
has already sounded, will be the signal for
the appearance of General Boulanger on
the stage of French politics, and neither
President Grevy nor his combined follow
ing can hiss him of. He will have come
to play the drama until the fall Of the
curtain as the star performer, beside whom
all others will be nObodies